There are 40 grams in 5 prunes. How much gram of weight is in 34 prunes

There are 40 grams in 5 prunes. How much gram of weight is in 34 prunes?

Set up a proportion of grams to prunes where g is the number of grams in 34 prunes:
40/5 = g/34

Typing this proportion of 40/5 = g/34 into our search engine, we get:
g = 272